This Solar Eclipse will have a huge impact on everyone. All eclipses shut something down, taking away elements of our lives no longer true for us. Cancer is the sign of home, family, and intimate feelings. It is how Capricorn, the sign of personal authority, externalizes. So a form of our personal past or how we define our needs will end, with the void sure to attract new forms of expressing this energy.

Since we have a very powerful Solar Eclipse in Cancer on July 21-22, today we take a look at Solar and Lunar Eclipses so we can understand them better. Why are Eclipses so powerful, and what can we do to make the best of them?